On History, Education, and Great Books
November 27, 2007 • by Jordan J. Ballor
Does a good education demand an appreciation for history? It would seem so. What arguments are there to support such a contention?
Neil Postman writes,
There is no escaping ourselves. The human dilemma is as it always has been, and it is a delusion to believe that the future will render irrelevant what we know and have long known about ourselves but find it convenient to forget. Continue Reading...